January was a unmitigated disaster. Let’s just get that out of the way from the start. No question about it, living a life that is 50% isolation and 50% drinking away your money in a bar is not good for the mind, body or soul. I’ve seen myself go from a happy and fulfilled person [...]
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Yeah, I’m really not wild about octopus heads, guys, mused a friend of mine last Saturday afternoon as – still in Friday night’s clothes – we groaned our way through a somewhat hungover breakfast at her local Korean restaurant. Such comments are perfectly commonplace in my life these days, and yet I still find them [...]
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I honestly don’t know what I find more frustrating. Is it the fact that you can spend entire lessons teaching a specific sentence structure or grammar point and there will always be one or two students who clearly have not listened to a single word, as is nicely illustrated when they hand in their homework [...]
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Having sat up talking to my best friend back home until after 4 o’clock this morning, I once again wanted the world to end when the alarm went off a few hours later. I really am not a very sensible person, these days. Still, I crawled out of bed – spilling a forgotten glass of [...]
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…is not good for me. It’s not on a lemon tree, though – it’s in my classroom. While work is (as my last post described) an absolute joy at the moment, the periods between classes are becoming difficult for me. I’m alone. I don’t mean in general – I have the best friends I could [...]
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I’m now in charge of the school’s latest endeavour – an after-school club for a dozen kindergarteners who can’t go home at 3 with the others, and whose parents are presumably willing to shell out a bit extra for another hour of babysitting combined with English. As it meant I had two of my small [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
